súlyosbít
B2
Hungarian
compound, exacerbate, deepen, worsen
VERB
B2
1
compound
B2
Usage pattern:
súlyosbít valamit
No example pairs yet.
Meaning
make a bad situation worse
Themes
worsening
|problems
|pressure
|tension
|core_vocabulary
Definition
To make a difficult, bad, or serious situation worse by adding to the existing problems.
VERB
C1
FORMAL
1
exacerbate
C1
Usage pattern:
vmit súlyosbít
No example pairs yet.
Meaning
make something bad even worse
Themes
worsening
|problem
|severity
|difficulty
|emotion
|formal_register
|core_vocabulary
Definition
To make an already bad situation, problem, or feeling more serious, intense, or difficult to deal with.
VERB
B2
2
deepen
B2
Usage pattern:
[problémát/helyzetet/válságot] súlyosbít
No example pairs yet.
Meaning
make a feeling or situation stronger
Themes
intensity
|problems
|emotions
|crisis
|core_vocabulary
Definition
To make a situation, problem, or feeling more intense, serious, or extreme, or to become so.
VERB
B2
2
worsen
B2
Usage pattern:
súlyosbít valamit
No example pairs yet.
Meaning
to make something worse
Themes
causation
|decline
|quality
|health
|problems
|conditions
|core_vocabulary
Definition
To cause something to become more serious, more severe, or of lower quality than it was before.
Grammar
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Expressions
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